Feb 19, 2017

great tutorial shared by The SketchUp Essential author's description
In today’s SketchUp quick tip, I’m going to teach you how to adjust the size of textures in SketchUp
Pretty much all of a material’s attributes are managed in the materials section of the tray. In this case, we’re going to talk about image based textures.

The way SketchUp creates image based textures is by repeating images over and over to create a continuous looking texture.
If you look at this CMU block texture, you can see repetition of the same image if you look closely enough.
If you look in the edit tab under this material, you can see down at the bottom that there are some dimensions in boxes. In this case, this cinder block texture is a repeating texture 1’6” wide by 8” high.
If we go in and change this, you can see that the texture image size changes in our model. You can use this with photo textures you import to resize texture images so they are to the right scale for your model.

There’s also an image of a chain off to the right of the dimensions. As long as the chain is unbroken, that indicates that the aspect ratio of the texture is locked. This prevents distortion of your image.
If you click on the chain so it appears broken, it unlocks the aspect ratio. This can allow you to stretch your image to change the way that it looks.
If you ever want to reset your texture size, simply click on the arrows to the left hand side of the dimensions.

Apr 21, 2015

ThruPaint is an awesome Sketchup Plugin that extends the native Sketchup Paint tool with some functions like painting across the boundaries of components and groups, control of the faces selection and face side, texturing with continuity and texturing edition.
This tutorial is a great courtesy by Luis Kreuz , member of "sketchup texture group". Thank you very much Luis, for this useful help
To download the plugin, and detailed information to install, click here SketchUcation (note: registration required)

Oct 21, 2013

many of you have written to me for how to do to insert a watermark to the drawing area, so today I decided to make this little tutorial with which I will explain the steps, and the different possibilities.

As always, I apologize to my readers for my terrible "Google English" ^-^

We all know that sketchup is a powerful tool in creating 3D object but creating 3d trees manually in sketchup requires time and patience to a 3d artist. In this tutorial we will learn the procedure in creating 3D trees in external software like Frecle TreeD and load it into sketchup.